Over the past few months, an official Nintendo account has been sharing tidbits of ARMS lore on Twitter. @ARMS_Cobutter is the account of the fictional announcer in the ARMS League named “Cobutter” in Japanese (otherwise known as Biff in the Western version of the game). I’ve been following Cobutter’s account and…

Yesterday, Saturday, July 15, for four brisk hours, Team Cake and Team Ice Cream duked it out for supremacy in Splatoon 2's first Splatfest. As of this morning, with the results officially in, Splatfest is over.

The Nintendo Wii was released on November 19, 2006. You might think that since the Wii is now two generations behind the current Nintendo console, that there are no new games made for it. You would be wrong.

As I’ve written about before, ARMS had its work cut out to win me over. But, by golly, did those two Nintendo Directs do it! It was with great anticipation that I waited to get into the action myself for the ARMS Testpunch.

When ARMS was first revealed at the Switch event in January, I could not have cared about it less. We had awesome trailers for Zelda, Mario, Splatoon, and even Xenoblade Chronicles, and all of this excitement surrounding these well-known franchises, not to mention just the Switch itself, drowned ARMS in a pool of…

No one really likes to hear about ports. People get hung up on which platform will provide the best value. For remasters, it’s a game that’s already been released and, for fans of the game, now I’m expected to buy it again?

So, as you can tell from my previous article, I love The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. And one of my favorite things about the game is how gosh darn beautiful the game’s world is. It might not be as technically impressive as, say Horizon: Zero Dawn, but Nintendo has a good track record of creating timeless art…

Every gamer has something a little different that they look for in a video game. Some look for a platformer that is completely unforgiving and requires absolute perfection from the player. Others look for 200-hour RPGs that tell a rich story with a rich and complex battle system to go with it. Me? I’m no special…

A new (and old) game was released for the Switch recently. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe came out on April 28th as the first widely appealing multiplayer game for the console. This is the Switch’s first big test in declaring itself as a device for communal gaming. Back when Nintendo released the first video of the Switch there…

What’s up! I’ve been playing my Switch way more than I thought I would. I keep wanting to get back to my PS4 with Overwatch and Persona 5 but find myself glued to the Switch. I swap between TV and handheld modes regularly, it is a feature I take more advantage of than I thought I would and you should too. The Nintendo…

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While most games are content to accentuate their melodrama with large orchestras or hard driving guitar tracks, it’s refreshing to see Breath of the Wild take a step in the opposite direction. In the game I’ll ride down the road on my favorite steed and a single piano plays a simple tune, or there’s no music at all. A…

Just in case you’re like me, and you run in fear when you step into one of these shrines, take heart. As long as you’ve got the right gear, these butt guardians become pussy cats. And I’m not talking about the Master Sword or anything like that. Still interested?

In Snipperclips: Cut it out, together!, the urge to cut your friends out of malice—and not for actual problem solving help—is strong. It makes the gaming experiencejust as frustrating as it is fun. But best of all, under that playful bit of co-op devilry is a very smart game.

It’s been about two weeks since the Switch launched, and those who decided to take the plunge with the console have pretty much put the console through its paces. This is evident given the number of reports about the left Joy-Con as well as the dock scratching issues that have been cropping up on various outlets. It’s…

I’ve read a lot of articles on the Nintendo Switch, most of them from the perspective of reporters who had access to information about the console before anyone else. These reporters also had the Switch mailed out to them before the launch so they could review it. I haven’t read much that details an average consumer’s…